(3 Mar 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kuala Lumpur - 3 March 2024
1. Various of MH370 memorial event
2. Various of Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Loke, Malaysia Transport Minister:
"No reluctance, as I’ve mentioned numerous times, as far as Malaysian government is concerned, we are committed to that search and the search must go on."
4. Mid of Loke surrounded by reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Loke, Malaysia Transport Minister:
"I am very, very confident that the government of Malaysia and cabinet will approval such proposal (the search)."
6. Various of Loke speaking to journalists
7. Various of puzzle piece exhibit with names of passengers and crews who were onboard flight MH370
8. Various of debris pieces from MH370 flight as part of memorial, people looking
9. Various of MH370 t-shirts
10. Various of MH370 poster
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, wife of Patrick Gomes who was an in-flight supervisor on flight MH370:
"I’m on top of the world, it is what we wanted to hear (regarding search proposal) and we hoped for that a very long time. He (Anthony Loke, Malaysian Transport Minister) has made a lot of promises to us and the fact he will help find the plane, and there is no two ways about it, I am so thankful."
12.Various of candles being lit
13. Various of people on a stage
14. Close of wife of steward on board flight MH370 Intan Maizura with her son
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Intan Maizura, wife of steward on board flight MH370:
"One day, there will be someone that will come forward and tell us what is really going on, the truth. That is all we want, we are longing for that until that day."
16. Various of memorial
17. Various of media
18. Close of candles
19. Various of woman who lost her mother on flight MH370 Grace Nathan on stage
20. Various of Nathan lighting candle
STORYLINE:
Malaysia's government said Sunday it may renew the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as a memorial was held in Kuala Lumpur, 10 years after its disappearance.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Texas-based Ocean Infinity has proposed another “no find, no fee” basis to scour the seabeds, expanding from the site where it first searched in 2018.
He said he has invited the company to meet him to evaluate new scientific evidence it has to find the plane's final resting place.
If the evidence is credible, he said, he will seek the Cabinet's approval to sign a new contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the search.
“We are committed to that search and the search must go on,” Loke told a remembrance event to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of the jet.
The Boeing 777 plane carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing, vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014.
Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path and was believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
But an expensive multinational government search failed to turn up any clues, although several pieces of debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands.
A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing but the tragedy sparked moves to bolster aviation safety.
“I'm on top of the world,” said Jacquita Gomes at the news of a possible new search, her husband, a flight attendant, was on the plane.
She said she is thankful that she may now have a chance for full closure and say a final goodbye.
AP video shot by Joshua Paul
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kuala Lumpur - 3 March 2024
1. Various of MH370 memorial event
2. Various of Malaysia Transport Minister Anthony Loke on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Loke, Malaysia Transport Minister:
"No reluctance, as I’ve mentioned numerous times, as far as Malaysian government is concerned, we are committed to that search and the search must go on."
4. Mid of Loke surrounded by reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Loke, Malaysia Transport Minister:
"I am very, very confident that the government of Malaysia and cabinet will approval such proposal (the search)."
6. Various of Loke speaking to journalists
7. Various of puzzle piece exhibit with names of passengers and crews who were onboard flight MH370
8. Various of debris pieces from MH370 flight as part of memorial, people looking
9. Various of MH370 t-shirts
10. Various of MH370 poster
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacquita Gomes, wife of Patrick Gomes who was an in-flight supervisor on flight MH370:
"I’m on top of the world, it is what we wanted to hear (regarding search proposal) and we hoped for that a very long time. He (Anthony Loke, Malaysian Transport Minister) has made a lot of promises to us and the fact he will help find the plane, and there is no two ways about it, I am so thankful."
12.Various of candles being lit
13. Various of people on a stage
14. Close of wife of steward on board flight MH370 Intan Maizura with her son
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Intan Maizura, wife of steward on board flight MH370:
"One day, there will be someone that will come forward and tell us what is really going on, the truth. That is all we want, we are longing for that until that day."
16. Various of memorial
17. Various of media
18. Close of candles
19. Various of woman who lost her mother on flight MH370 Grace Nathan on stage
20. Various of Nathan lighting candle
STORYLINE:
Malaysia's government said Sunday it may renew the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as a memorial was held in Kuala Lumpur, 10 years after its disappearance.
Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke said Texas-based Ocean Infinity has proposed another “no find, no fee” basis to scour the seabeds, expanding from the site where it first searched in 2018.
He said he has invited the company to meet him to evaluate new scientific evidence it has to find the plane's final resting place.
If the evidence is credible, he said, he will seek the Cabinet's approval to sign a new contract with Ocean Infinity to resume the search.
“We are committed to that search and the search must go on,” Loke told a remembrance event to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of the jet.
The Boeing 777 plane carrying 239 people, mostly Chinese nationals, from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing, vanished from radar shortly after taking off on March 8, 2014.
Satellite data showed the plane deviated from its flight path and was believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.
But an expensive multinational government search failed to turn up any clues, although several pieces of debris washed ashore on the east African coast and Indian Ocean islands.
A private search in 2018 by Ocean Infinity also found nothing but the tragedy sparked moves to bolster aviation safety.
“I'm on top of the world,” said Jacquita Gomes at the news of a possible new search, her husband, a flight attendant, was on the plane.
She said she is thankful that she may now have a chance for full closure and say a final goodbye.
AP video shot by Joshua Paul
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